Machine for cutting noodles



Aug. 5, 1930.

MACHINE FOR CUTT-ING NOODLES Filed Oct. 25, 1929 5 Sheets-Sheet 1 J. KREJ cvzl 1,772,397

Aug. 5, 1930. ,IKREJ; 1,772,397

MACHINE FOR CUTTING NOODLES.

Filed 00u25. 1929 s sheets-sheet 2 37 O l .4- fa' 30 /6 5 5 o l @e9 j l 7 l i AIIIHIM Illllh. y ff f ,o .5.1 \\\\\(\2\\\\ n t 6 7 Y J' 6 l 9 4 mllm 7 3mm Aug. 5, 1930. J. KREJl AMACHINE: Fon CUTTING NooDLEs Filedoct. 25. 1929 s sheetsshet 5 Patented Aug. 5," 1930 UNITED s*'1*A'ri3-s JOSEPH KREJI, on'rYNnnnnsourH yiiAigofrA l 5' i MACHINE ron oufrfrruefnoonnns f Application aieaoctober 2551929.- seria'i No; @2,486. 5

This invention has relationto machines for cutting noodles and Aconsists in the novel construction, combination and arrangement of elements constituting a machine having` an elongated trough for feeding the material to be cut through said trough,1a knife operatingto out the material in slices," mechanism operable from a `main shaft, to depress the knife at regular periodic intervals, means for automatically raisingv the knife after leach cut, and means for regulatingthe pressure of the feeding rolls ,and edectingother operations and results hereinafter more particularly set forth. y

In` the accompanying drawings illustrating a suitable and preferred embodiment of the invention, j y

Figure 1 is a top plan view of the' machine;

Figure 2 is a right side elevation of the 20 same;

Figure 3 is a left side elevation; Figure 4 is a vertical longitudinal sectional view;

Figure 5 is a frontelevation; Figure 6 is a detached sectional g view walls of the feeding trough; and

Figure 7 is a transverse sectional view of the forward end of thermachine.

The machine to be described comprises an elongated trough having the vertical side walls 1,2 mountedon suitable supports 3, 4.- and havinga floor 5. The trough is open at the top and at theends. Openings 6, 6 are formed in the floor for the reception of sprocket wheels 7, 7 which are mounted on transverse shafts 8, 8. `A series of carrier chains 9, 9 are trained around these sprocket wheels, and pass below and in engagement with a series of sprocket Wheels 10, l0 mounted on a transverse shaft 11, below the floor of the trough.

Onone end of the shaft carrying the sprocket wheels 7 and on the outside ofthe trough a larger sprocket wheel 12 is mounted,

`tends across 4the `upper .and iforepart` of the fwardi inthe direction of the kni-fe.-

17,? 1upon which is carried afhorizontally ribbed `rollerfl8, located within thetrough. AAsiinilar roller 18 arrangedin advance; of

throughthe front part of one of the y'side tension of adjustingscrews 2 7. i y y `Theend portionsof the shafts17, `17

around and in engagementfwith which passes a `chain l13, ywhich "1"tl1en passes around V.a smaller sprocketwheel 14, keyedon' the "end of ythe* transverse` drive shaft A15. which eX- ,trough and has its bearings in'fthe sidewalls 50 lof the latter.. Y'

A crank lever 16iis :attached to oneend ofl lthe shaft 15: and vthrough this, motion is given Vtoa-the .carrier chains, in the proper direction to move their upper sections for- The chain 13 engages with another `larger sprocketv wheel 16", and, drives 'the same.

This rwheelis mountedlon atransverse shaft the roller 18 is operated from the .shaftl 17 by means of a chain 2O engaginglsprooket wheels 21, 22 keyed respectively to the shaft lL7 of rollery 18 `and shaft 17;. of roller 18. The rollers-18 and 18'.` are positively driven in the" same direction and arelspaced apart afsufiicient distance `for the ,positioning of a smoothsurfaced idle roller 23. c Y

.The 4 shafts of the several l rollers have verticaLplay in slots 25,' in the walls of the in sockets` in the trough walls and under the 'project through vertical slots 28, formed in l the upright portions yofthe `L-sha-ped plate 29, and the longer legs of these plates extend upwardly through guide brackets y 30 at- `tachedto the walls of the trough. These longer legs or members are connected `at their upper ends by a handle roller 31 by which the plates may be liftedto lift the rollers when necessary during the operation of the machine.

The numeral 32 designates the cutting blade which is arranged in a vertical plane e0 at the forward end of the trough and is attached to a bar 33 pivoted at its rear end to a standard 34 supported by a horizontal bar 34;. The forward end of the bar 33 projects through a vertical slot 35 in the wall of the trough. A spiral spring 36 seated in a vertical socket in the wall of the trough bears against the lower edge of the bar 33, and

tends to force the latter and the blade upwardly and beyond the lower level of the rollers. v

Thekn-ife is actuated tomakea downward cut bymeans of thespderf37, which is secured to the main shaft 15 and consists of n a hub and a series of radial arms which are,

rounded on one side of'the ends so aste easily pass over the knife. When the shaft l5 is rotated'in the properV direction, the arms ofthe;spivfler'?A succes-Kv sively depress rtheknife and after each de- -,press ion.orfcut,fmoves past-it, allowingthe knietofgspring upwardly for another cut.

. VAs;will:he-understood,the dough' orfother materialis placed inthe trough andfupon 1tlielrear portions of' they carrier ychains and eis: conveyed tof thefseries vol .rollers under Y kwhich it passes to the knife which .cut'sthe materialinstri-pssof.uniform-width. 1

rEhe barysisattached to ailat Vtubular 'collar 34" Vwhichslips over theend of af bar Y342l projecting'from the wall 2l of: the trough, and is remowabletherefrom to take -out the knife.

:.rTheJspidem 13"! may befof J'a 'di'erent'size ,andfembod' fany number fof larmsso that the frame struct-ure maybe anchoredy in any conyernent zmanner vto "a 'table or other support. f Hela-imz-- A- cutting fmaehine ofthe character described, comprising an elongated'troug-h, `an 4endless .chain carrier-i located therein5'sprooket wheelsengagingsaid carrier, a drivingv shaft, a ltrainof-sprocket wheels and chains `connected to said-"driving shaftlandarranged and adaptedto lconveyjmotion` to thecarrler, 4ai series offeed rollers arranged .to rotate above said 'carrier and" to re'cei'vepositive motion through `chain and sprocket connection Vfrom the driving-shaft,a'yertically movable cutting implement Iand means for operating the same intermittently Lfrom the said driving shaft', saidlfeed rollers beingjmounted on vertically 'moving vplates and provided with means for raisinglthe same.

Ifntestimonywhereof Ivaliixmy signature. K i l Y KEEJCI 

